ASIO will be able to arrange for the Australian Federal Police to arrest and hold you for questioning for up to seven days. If this isn't long enough, another detention warrant can be issued.
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the painin Baghdad is thereand everywhereand real
asall day and nightthe news reportersreport it:
on the faces of tired civiliansand soldiers fed up with Basra,trying hard to find new reasonsfor being where they now are.
bush walks across the
BY DOUG LORIMER
"The safety conditions in Afghanistan have deteriorated badly in the course of 2003 and one can't say that they have changed in a decisive, long-term or effective fashion. It is therefore hard to think of promoting repatriation [of
BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY The ADI Residents Action Group (RAG) was disappointed, but not surprised, by the June 16 NSW government approval of the development of the old defence site at St Marys. Nearly 2000 homes will be built on 130 hectares of
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY Promoting his latest state budget, released on June 24, NSW Labor treasurer Michael Egan has described it as a "true Labor budget", arguing that it fulfils social justice criteria because of the extra outlays in most
BY IGGY KIM
On June 24, US journalist William Nessen gave himself up to the Indonesian military in the northern Acehnese village of Paya Dua.
Nessen had been accompanying Free Aceh Movement (GAM) fighters since early May, before the outbreak of
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE "It's crucial that we start to get out of our little boxes", said John Cummins, Victorian president of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), addressing the Victorian Socialist Alliance state
BY DOUG LORIMER
Student leaders held sit-ins on June 22 in front of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) and inside Tehran University to protest the detention of classmates following violent attacks on student protests the previous week by pro-clerical
BY NORM DIXON
Australian military intervention into the Solomon Islands, announced by Prime Minister John Howard on June 25, will not solve problems that are the legacy of more than a century of imperialist economic and political domination and the
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
LAUNCESTON The Sarwari family Mohib, Fatima and their four children will be able to stay in Australia for now. After a long struggle, the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) reinstated their temporary protection visa
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